Yesterday I had the following email from Jeremy Corbyn: Sue, we’ve just found out that the Tories in Kensington have been asking residents how important the Grenfell tragedy is on a scale of 0-10. It is insulting and insensitive. Preventing another fire like Grenfell...

I remember the good old days when a small group of MPs were the front line in Parliamentary opposition to Blairite Labour. There were the 6 SNP MPs, 3 Plaid, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, latterly Caroline Lucas and the rest of the small band of Labour Campaign Group...

Whatever his other qualities, Iain Macwhirter is a journalist in the British tradition. Hence his tendency to echo the cosy consensus of the London-based media. And his dutiful adherence to another facet of the British journalistic tradition, the prompt rehabilitation...

Much has been made recently of the Labour Leadership’s confused Brexit position. The general line from Corbyn supporters is “Brexit has happened, it can’t be stopped, what can we do?”. Many Labour Remain supporters believe that the result must be respected, whatever...

This year’s Great British Menu Banquet, in recognition of the austere times in which we live, was only two courses; a main and a pudding. On the positive side, at least as far as some were concerned, instead of a sit-down affair in a posh indoor venue, the food was...